How to fix – Period is spoken as “dot”

Interesting! I will investigate it and will try to fix this on next release. You are the first person with this kind of problem to be honest :). Thanks for flagging this!

Thanks for the help!

Hi,
I’ve tested it, but I can’t get this ‘dot’ to be spoken. Check this: https://demo-cloud.pl/2019/03/01/post/

When you wrote the article is there something ‘special’ happening after those .dots? For example you put some extra HTML/JS code etc. – which I don’t see in the page, but it’s there?

I have the same issue that shows up on most of my podcasts. It doesn’t occur after every “dot” but it happens often enough. Here is an example at 1:02:
https://www.chantireviews.com/2019/03/01/a-new-tool-to-improve-performance-on-amazons-sponsored-product-ads-by-kiffer-brown/

This is the html:

<h2>Finally, a tool that will amplify your marketing efforts on Amazon!</h2>
Amazon’s Sponsored Products ads are among the most powerful marketing strategies for authors who sell ebooks on Amazon.

<em>However,? the learning curve of how to use Amazon Sponsored Ads prevents many authors from ever taking advantage of this robust and proven?advertising strategy.</em>
<h3>What are Amazon Sponsored?Product Ads and Why are They Important to Authors?</h3>
Amazon’s Sponsored Products are cost-per-click ads for individual product listings that appear on product pages and search results throughout Amazon’s website. If you’ve ever been browsing for a new book on Amazon, then you’ve seen Sponsored Products. They look like regular book product listings, but they have a little tag that says “Sponsored.”

<em>Can you see "Sponsored" in the copy and paste below??</em>It is to the left of the blue arrow on the second book listing. In reality on Amazon, there is no blue arrow—just an unassuming Sponsored tag.

<img src="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Amazon-Advertising-for-ebooks-1-1-1024x458.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="458" />

It happens again at 1:34 and this is the code snippet:

<h3>Product Targeting</h3>
<span>Instead of targeting keywords, you can also target specific products, such as best-selling and/or competing books in your genre. For example, if there’s a great book out there that’s similar to yours in terms of style and content, you can target your competitor’s book in hopes of attracting their readers. Additional functions with this option include targeting specific categories and excluding certain products with negative product targeting.</span>

<em>With PublishDrive's Advance Targeting Tool,? authors now have more options and greater control over their campaigns. So do keep on reading and stay with me...</em>

It happens a couple other places too. I haven’t noticed it saying dot if the “dot” is in the middle of a paragraph. It seems to only occur if we have a “dot” that is followed by some html code.

-andy

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@chantireviews – Thx a lot for this! It allowed me to reproduce the problem. I will fix it on next plugin release. For sure this month.

It should be now fixed ?? (version 3.0.1). Let me know if the problem will be still there.

It is now working. Thanks.